Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] joincap: Merge multiple pcap files together, gracefully
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 10:24:55 -0700
On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Assaf <assaf.morami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Usually if an input file doesn't exists (2) or is a directory (3) the user can't do anything to fix this other then fixing the command line, so joincap just ignores it and saves the user some time.

If the user mistyped the pathname of a file, it only saves them time if the contents of the file whose pathname they typed didn't need to be in the resulting file.  If they *did* expect that file's packets to be in the file, they end up with a file that doesn't contain what they think it did....